• Identification of Important Sea Turtle Areas (ITAs) for hawksbill turtles in the Arabian Region 

      Pilcher, Nicolas J.; Antonopoulou, Marina; Perry, Lisa; Abdel-Moati, Mohamed A.; Al Abdessalaam, Thabit Zahran; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2014 , Article)
      We present the first data on hawksbill turtle post-nesting migrations and behaviour in the Arabian region. Tracks from 90 post-nesting turtles (65 in the Gulf and 25 from Oman) revealed that hawksbills in the Arabian region ...
    • Nesting ecology of hawksbill turtles, Eretmochelys imbricata, in an extreme environmental setting 

      Chatting, Mark; Smyth, David; Al-Maslamani, Ibrahim; Obbard, Jeffrey; Al-Ansi, Mehsin; ... more authors ( Public Library of Science , 2018 , Article)
      Relatively few details of hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) nesting ecology exist within the Arabian Gulf. Moreover, little is known about how their nesting dynamics compare to nesting populations throughout the ...
    • Short-term behavioural responses to thermal stress by hawksbill turtles in the Arabian region 

      Pilcher, Nicolas J.; Perry, Lisa; Antonopoulou, Marina; Abdel-Moati, Mohamed A.; Al Abdessalaam, Thabit Zahran; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2014 , Article)
      We present a previously unrecorded short-term behavioural response by hawksbill sea turtles to elevated sea surface temperatures in the Persian/Arabian Gulf. Surface waters typically exceed 30°C for sustained periods during ...